[Fr.], flying rumor, news stirring, cry, buzz, bruit, fame; talk, oui dire [Fr.], scandal, eavesdropping; town tattle, table talk; tittle tattle; canard, topic of the day, idea afloat.

The contrast between these two forms of a reality which we will agree to suppose substantially spiritual is practically the topic of this course of lectures.

And Edwin Clayhanger was precisely the topic which Janet seemed, as it were, expressly to avoid.

He himself to purely topics.

Her fellow travelers had taken measures of defense by keeping up among themselves a lively conversation on any topic whatsoever.